Composition for renovating black fabrics



NlTE rates FFIQEQ ATENI WILLARD H. ISHAM, OF GENEVA, OHIO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,956, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed July 9, 1896. Serial No. 598,543. (No specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD H. ISHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at the village of Geneva, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning and Restoring the Color. of Black Wool and For Felt Hats and Bonnets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to use the same.

The objects of my invention are to clean black wool and fur felt hats and bonnets and restore the color of the same; and my invention consists in the composition and use of a certain liquid composed of ingredients compounded and applied and used as hereinafter specified.

The said liquid consists of sweet-oil, naphtha, and lampblack compounded inthe proportions, by weight, of two ounces of oil, half an ounce of naphtha, and two grains of lampblack. The ingredients stated are essential, though the proportions may not be precisely necessary to effectuate the purposes of the invention; but the proportions stated are preferable, and any small excess of any of the specified ingredients will not destroy the composition chemically nor prevent the desired effect.

To carry my invention into effect, I make use of some kind of cloth, preferably velveteen, saturated with the fluid and rub the article vigorously with it until the article is cleaned and the color is restored and brightened.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A liquid prepared for use, consisting of the composition or combination of olive oil, (known as sweet-0H,) naphtha and lampblack, in the proportions by weight of two ounces of olive-oil, half an ounce of naphtha and two grains of lampblack, adapted to be applied to articles by saturating cloth or other porous substance and rubbing the article therewith, as and for the purposes set forth in the specification.

WILLARD H. ISI-IAM.

Witnesses:

' BURT BRETT,

A. K, BITTER-STONE. 

